Zond 6 was a formal member of the Soviet Zond program, and an unpiloted version of the Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed Moon-flyby spacecraft. It was launched on a lunar flyby mission on November …

Nov 14, 2018 · Zond-6: Racing Apollo-8. On Nov. 10, 1968, the USSR launched the eighth prototype of the L1 spacecraft, publicly announced as Zond-6. The spacecraft looped around …

Zond (Russian: Зонд, lit. 'probe') was the name given to two distinct series of Soviet robotic spacecraft launched between 1964 and 1970. The first series, based on the 3MV planetary …

Nov 9, 2018 · Zond 6 launched successfully on Nov. 10, 1968, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, and after a short time in a low Earth parking orbit, the Proton rocket’s upper stage …

Apr 11, 2025 · Zond 6 was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite (68-101B) in earth parking orbit. The spacecraft, which carried scientific probes including cosmic-ray and …

Dec 21, 2018 · Zond 6, which took off on November 10, did carry out the planned reentry profile and landed in Soviet territory, but the cabin pressurization failed, killing the animal test …

Nov 10, 2018 · Zond 6 was the 13th launch of the Soviet ‘Zond’ space program. This program, started in the early 1960’s and had two distinct eras of different spacecraft. The first of which, …

Jodrell Bank is releasing audio recordings of a Soviet space mission from fifty years ago, just as the race to the Moon was approaching the finish line. On November 10 th 1968, the Soviet …

Zond 6 was a formal member of the Soviet Zond program, and an unpiloted version of the Soyuz 7K-L1 crewed Moon-flyby spacecraft. It was launched on a lunar flyby mission on November …

Zond 6 was launched on a lunar flyby mission from a parent satellite in Earth parking orbit. The spacecraft, which carried scientific probes including cosmic-ray and micrometeoroid detectors, …